DEBIAN 2.0 FAQ Tue Aug 18
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is a rather crude and quick hammered FAQ list for the DEBIAN GNU/Linux System. Version: Tue Aug 18 13:00:00 CEST 1998 (C) 1998 Jens Ritter. You may want to apply one of the Gnu Public Licenses to this document. Questions: 1) Soundbalster AWE/16/32 PnP: Howto get it work? 2) The clock under Linux is wrong: What shall I do? 3) How to I turn off console screen blanking? 4) Where has pine gone in hamm? 5) Where has bo gone? *PANIC* N) How to I contribute to this FAQ? Answers: 1) My SoundBlaster AWE/16/32 PnP does not work. What can I do/What`s the problem? Well on most systems you have to use the isapnp package to get it work. Use pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf to generate a starting configuration. Edit it. Configure and Compile the sound driver as module and add sound to /etc/modules. Keep you fingers crossed while you reboot. (See the HOWTOs for more information, especially the Soundblaster AWE mini HOWTO -- you can find the in /usr/doc/HOWTO, if you have installed doc-linux-text). Note that with SB 16 Vibra you have to configure a 16 bit DMA channel of 1 to be able to play mp3 files. 2) My Clock is off X hours, when I am in Linux. What's wrong? Under Linux there is a difference between the hardware clock (CMOS clock) and the time displayed when you call date. Most probably you gave some false answers when you installed debian the fist time (because you didn't know better). Thorsten Hilbrich wrote: If your debian box is not correctly configured regarding to time zones just run the tzconfig program and select something like Europe, Budapest. Then check how you configured the CMOS clock to run. Look into the /etc/default/rcS file (for a Debian 2.0 system). If the line reads GMT=-u your CMOS clock is always set to GMT/UTC (Greenwich Mean Time, Universal Time Code), i.e. the time in your debian box is different from the one in the CMOS clock). If you want to change this, change the line to GMT=. Note that you can use the xntp3 package to set you box to a correct time when you are connected to the internet. 3) How do you shutoff the console's screen blank? Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] answers: The command is setterm -blank 0 Just create a file in /etc/rc.boot --- #!/bin/sh setterm -blank 0 and chmod 755 it. --- 4) Where has pine gone in hamm? Due to the License of pine, which restrict the distribution of modified binaries, there are only pine396-src and pine396-diffs in the archive. You have to compile and generate a pine package yourself. See /usr/src/pine/README after installing pine396-src and -diffs. 5) Where the biep is bo? I need it urgently!!! Debians distribution has grown over the last five years. Now there are 1500 packages in source and binary form. Diskspace has become an issue. The official site do not carry bo (aka Debian 1.3.1) any more. But don't panick: There are mirrors of bo out there. Here's an imcomplete list (if no path is mentioned, it's the usual place): * ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/ (Note: This is not complete, please send links to bo mirrors!!) N) How do I contribute to this FAQ? Please sent mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], if you have any corrections / suggestions, new questions. Thanks Jens - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Global War[m|n|p|r]ing? -- Peter G. Neumann (Comp.Risks 19.91) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNdlfV7IME9PkUcY5AQHkwAf6AjwjbxLjoKOUe1MMmcsrTfl018O/NivL Wzczp/q6SI4q5w38hSicuQKwtgWUFCMwXSBdSda6f+hWfEOfueIFxAZmIci5DdsJ E6h9Om5nyE6d3HvhuNJNe81miuDnYv32UdISzSb/6mB2WO+WxXKmJ2UjEajc6/Pn jrvWMJoWhlSwKXpHKHjJzrrzmkOZBvaFk/NvLgPXtJSpA3pZjkab9GYQej35KHQ0 eQs/+Ajr69q5U40NTNVYZhJqpNr+loVptPC6Qdl5lbhP4A/OWuFePyBZIUHkU/he WTwpNLrc1hKactlozJM0731+/JNkqlcpLnAUWtzAChpqnoMs1AEMgA== =Gn5b -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: DEBIAN 2.0 FAQ Tue Aug 18
What happened to the FAQ-O-MATIC? Did it die? Jens Ritter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is a rather crude and quick hammered FAQ list for the DEBIAN GNU/Linux System. Version: Tue Aug 18 13:00:00 CEST 1998 (C) 1998 Jens Ritter. You may want to apply one of the Gnu Public Licenses to this document. Deleted some good bits of currently asked questions. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4
Re: DEBIAN 2.0 FAQ Tue Aug 18
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Greg Vence wrote: What happened to the FAQ-O-MATIC? Did it die? No. It still exists, but is nowhere mentioned on debian.org (the main pages --- i.e. there is no link to fom under support). You can still reach it at: http://www.XY.debian.org/fom/1.html XY = your favorite mirror of debian.org but it is a but outdated. I guess Igor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and the rest of the fom maintainer will have to make a decision to (dis)continue it. (See my posting on debian-devel.) HTH, Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Global War[m|n|p|r]ing? -- Peter G. Neumann (Comp.Risks 19.91)
Debian 2.0 FAQ
Hi, Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? Btw. Is upgrading better than reinstalling? Thanx, Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2.0 FAQ
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? if you are referring to the HOWTO, then you can get it from my autoup site. http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ or http://taz.net.au/autoup/ i don't know if Scott has updated this HOWTO lately or not...but there is a link to his site in the howto. in any case, you probably want to run the autoup.sh script rather than follow the HOWTO. autoup.sh does everything that's in the howto and more (and has been kept up to date). Btw. Is upgrading better than reinstalling? yes. that's one of the advantages of debian :-)you never have to reformat and reinstall ever again (barring hard disk failure, of course) craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2.0 FAQ
Hi Craig, thanx for the prompt reply. Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, 24 May 1998, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? if you are referring to the HOWTO, then you can get it from my autoup site. http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ or http://taz.net.au/autoup/ Yup. I meant the HOWTO... i don't know if Scott has updated this HOWTO lately or not...but there is a link to his site in the howto. in any case, you probably want to run the autoup.sh script rather than follow the HOWTO. autoup.sh does everything that's in the howto and more (and has been kept up to date). There is one problem with the autoup.sh when using ftp-installation-method. I used ftp.debian.org as mirror and the slang-lib was not found (and not downloaded). It worked after downloading the slang-package from /pub/debian/hamm/binaries-i386/base and putting it into the /tmp/libs-directory. Thanx again, Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2.0 FAQ
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:02:43PM +0200, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? Attached to email. Btw. Is upgrading better than reinstalling? Unless you have a reason to reinstall, ie I plan to reinstall at some point so I can get a fresh set of good partitions now that I know how much space I -USE- on different partitions.. pgpZCffk8tcD0.pgp Description: PGP signature
